assuage
英[ə'sweɪdʒ]
美[ə'swedʒ]
- vt. 平息；缓和；减轻
词态变化
第三人称单数: assuages;过去式: assuaged;过去分词: assuaged;现在分词: assuaging;
中文词源
assuage 缓和
前缀as- 同ad-. 词根suav, 甜，同sweet, persuade.
英文词源
- assuage
- assuage: see persuade
- assuage (v.)
- c. 1300, from Anglo-French assuager, Old French assoagier "soften, moderate, alleviate, calm, soothe, pacify," from Vulgar Latin *adsuaviare, from Latin ad- "to" (see ad-) + suavis "sweet, agreeable" (see sweet (adj.)). For sound development in French, compare deluge from Latin diluvium, abridge from abbreviare. Related: Assuaged; assuaging.
双语例句
- 1. The medicine is used to assuage pain.
- 这种药用来止痛.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 2. Talking to her helped to assuage my guilt.
- 和她交谈減轻了我的负罪感.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 3. To assuage his wife's grief, he took her on a tour of Europe.
- 为了减轻妻子的悲痛，他带她去了欧洲旅游。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. She was just trying to assuage her guilt by playing the devoted mother.
- 她装出一副慈母的样子只是想要减轻自己的罪恶感。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. " I was only made to assuage my parents'reproductive vanity,'she says bitterly.
- “ 我来到这个世上只是为了满足我父母的生育虚荣心. ” 她忿忿地说.
来自时文部分